An upper elementary/middle school walk through Victorian London.

An exploration of Victorian London cam be made through an overlapping two-part study:

Charles Dickens

Street children in London

The Industrial Revolution brought about great changes that shaped the notable advances and problems of the Victorian era. Charles Dickens honestly approached the effects of economic forces on social structure in his writing. He sought to bring them to the public conscience. Writing novels set in a society where there was a vast gulf between the privileged and the working poor and the destitute, he repeatedly dealt with the consequences of crime, poverty, disease, hunger, homelessness, and lack of education on children.

Students will use Victorian London as a lens to study these issues and investigate peripheral interdisciplinary subjects.